A satyr wearing eyeglasses, with young assistant, removes a thorn from the foot of a male faun who leans against female companion. Engraving by G. Piccini after J. Muller after B. Spranger.

Illustration showing Lacertus omnium maximus, Crocodilus: The Alligator

White magnolia blossom and seed pod, 1731

Silenus holding the infant Bacchus. Crayon manner print by J.F. Cazenave after Eugène Bourgeois.

Sir Charles Bell, The anatomy and philosophy

Joseph Nollekens arranges a bust of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, between busts of William Pitt the younger and Charles James Fox, in a display of sculptures. Etching by J. Sayers, 1808.

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